If you’re trying to access a class library (.NET Standard) from a traditional console application (in VS2017 those can be found under ‘Windows Classic Desktop’) you will run into problems; which can feel a little strange for something that was pretty simple in VS2015 and earlier. You can add a reference to the class library…
The title pretty much says it all, there is no way to open an MVC2 project within Visual Studio 2012, there is no “auto-upgrade” path either! If you attempt to convert a solution containing an MVC2 project you will probably see the following error message: Subtype: ‘{F85E285D-A4E0-4152-9332-AB1D724D3325}’ is unsupported by this installation. If you do,…
Not sure that this post really needs anything more than the title. If you are upgrading a Silverlight project from VS2008 or VS2010 be aware that VS2012 only supports versions 4 & 5 of Silverlight. If you need to update the solution/projects to use them in VS2012 I’d recommend upgrading to at least Silverlight 4…
We’ve recently upgraded to Visual Studio 2012 from VS2008 and switched over to using NuGet rather than direct project references for our third party tools. Everything worked as planned until we checked the solution into source control and the personal build for TeamCity kicked off. Almost straight away the build fell over with the following…
I ran into an interesting problem today when upgrading a visual studio 2008 project to visual studio 2012, whilst trying to leave the targeted framework to .NET 3.5. Each time I tried to open the solution all my test projects automatically upgraded to .NET 4.0 regardless of what I did. It was impossible to downgrade…
Today Jetbrains announced on their blog that they’ve released a resharper nuget package that will obtain project references via nuget, rather than making direct references to the locally installed code. As we are currently in the early stages of transitioning from VS2008 to VS2012 we aren’t ready to start using NuGet(*) but I think I’ll…
Just a word of warning: Windows NT and Windows Server 2003 do not support .NET 4.5 – you can not install the framework onto these systems. So if you are building in visual studio 2012 and have to support Server 2003 (or earlier) then you must remember to target .NET4.0 (or lower) in your project(s)…
One thing I’ve found over time is you can never find licensing details for VS and SQL products when you need them, so here’s the link for VS2012 Licensing details I quite like what Microsoft is doing with these white papers, the use case examples are really useful and answer most usage questions.
If you’re using WIX and you’re adding components to the product file by hand then you’ve probably found yourself creating and cutting/pasting a lot of GUIDs which can be a real pain and productivity killer. There is the “Create GUID” menu option under tools but that still requires calling and then cutting / pasting. The…
When looking to automate a TFS2010 build one of the first issues that most people seem to encounter is that all the binaries of each project in a solution end up in the same “bin” directory. The forum post TFS 2010 BUILD SERVER: Can not keep folder tree in the drop location ? details the…